Most Americans know that eggs are both incredible and edible. But now they’re political too. As the average price of a dozen large, grade-A eggs continues to soar amid a raging bird-flu outbreak — hitting $4.

And Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said President Donald Trump’s actions are “well outside the purview of the executive office,” adding, “These are unprecedented attempts to defund childcare or to defund infrastructure projects.” Attorney Gen. Kwame Raoul, who was part of the lawsuit that stopped the funding freeze, said it’s about eggs.

White House reporter for the Washington Examiner, Christian Datoc, asked the final question at this term's first WH press briefing about the increasing cost of eggs. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt answered: "We also have seen the cost of everything -- not just eggs,

Though he promised to lower costs on Day 1, President Trump remains just as beholden to the laws of supply and demand as his predecessor.

At her first White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made an unusual claim about inflation that has stung American shoppers for years: Leavitt said egg prices have continued to surge because “the Biden administration and the department of agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens,

The Trump White House says former President Joe Biden is to blame for skyrocketing egg prices. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt held her first briefing in her new role Tuesday, during which inflation and egg prices specifically were raised on multiple occasions.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the Biden administration contributed to the high cost of eggs after directing 100,000,000 chickens be killed.

Bot the disease and culling has impacted egg prices, but President Donald Trump vowed in November that he would “immediately” reduce prices. “As far as the egg shortage ... the Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens which has led to a lack of chicken supply in this country,